Academic Program Assessment Manager

The University of Texas at Austin•Austin, UT

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Academic Program Assessment Manager reports to the Assistant Vice Provost for Accreditation, Assessment, and Academic Effectiveness and manages the operational functions for learning-outcomes compliance, curriculum alignment, and academic-effectiveness documentation. This role supports the AVP in ensuring institutional readiness for SACSCOC expectations regarding student learning, curriculum, and institutional effectiveness. It provides operational leadership, analytical expertise, and cross-university coordination for curriculum design, learning outcomes assessment, and continuous improvement across academic, administrative, and student-support units. The manager advances a data-informed culture of academic effectiveness by supporting units in curriculum mapping, learning outcomes development and alignment, assessment planning, instructional improvement, and evidence-based decision-making. This role serves as the campus-wide operational lead for curriculum and assessment workflows and strengthens UT Austin's readiness for federal, state, and SACSCOC expectations related to student learning, curriculum, and institutional effectiveness. The position supports all relevant SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation and Standards where learning objectives, outcomes, curriculum, and effectiveness are implicated. While the AVP defines institutional strategy, policy interpretation, and compliance direction, the Academic Program Assessment Manager manages the operational functions that implement those priorities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in higher education administration, learning sciences, curriculum and instruction, assessment, program evaluation, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated experience in curriculum design, learning outcomes assessment, educational analytics, or program evaluation.
Experience coordinating complex academic processes and managing multi-modal data.
Strong analytical and writing skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to train, consult, and communicate effectively with faculty, staff, and administrators.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a large, complex academic environment.
Must be eligible to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Master's, EdD or PhD in higher education administration, learning sciences, curriculum and instruction, assessment, program evaluation, or a closely related field.
Experience working within a research-intensive university.
Experience managing assessment or accreditation software platforms.
Experience designing and delivering interdisciplinary course assessments in support of student learning at scale.
Experience with Watermark, Tableau, Power BI, R, SPSS, LMS-based analytics tools, or comparable platforms.
A record of presentations, publications, or grant activity related to learning outcomes, assessment, or academic effectiveness.

Responsibilities

Coordinate institution-wide workflows for course- and program-level learning outcomes development, alignment, assessment, and revision.
Lead curriculum mapping initiatives that support SACSCOC compliance, program review cycles, core curriculum redesign, and other institutional academic-effectiveness priorities.
Manage timelines, templates, process maps, and institutional repositories for curriculum and assessment documentation.
Conduct quality reviews of learning objectives, outcomes, curriculum maps, and assessment plans to ensure academic integrity, quality, continuous improvement, clarity, measurability, alignment, and compliance with accrediting expectations and obligations.
Support colleges and schools in embedding academic-effectiveness principles into course design, modality planning, and instructional innovation.
Coordinate and support the full cycle of learning outcomes assessment for academic programs, administrative units, and student-support services, including planning, data collection, analysis, and documentation.
Oversee the institutional assessment management system, including training, system maintenance, user support, data integrity, and reporting functionality.
Provide guidance on assessment methods, data collection strategies, rubric design, and evidence-based continuous improvement efforts for faculty, staff, and administrators.
Produce summaries, dashboards, and analytic reports that distill assessment findings for internal and external stakeholders.
Ensure that assessment documentation aligns with federal, state, disciplinary accreditation, and SACSCOC expectations and standards related to student learning, curriculum, and institutional effectiveness.
Document the use of results for continuous improvement, consistent with SACSCOC expectations for academic effectiveness, institutional effectiveness, and student outcomes.
Manage technical platforms and workflows for assessment-related data collection, reporting, visualization, and archival storage.
Collaborate with Institutional Reporting, Data to Insights, and other partners to maintain consistency between institutional data definitions, coding, and academic-effectiveness documentation.
Develop crosswalks, evidence bundles, and structured analytic reports that support accreditation submissions, program review, and institutional planning.
When appropriate, integrate learning analytics, information visualization, and data-science tools into curriculum and assessment processes.
Design and deliver workshops, webinars, seminars, consultations, and training curricula on learning objectives, outcomes, and assessment; curriculum mapping and design; data interpretation and use of evidence; continuous improvement methods; and instructional alignment and academic effectiveness.
Develop and maintain resource guides, templates, exemplars, online modules, and self-service tools that support unit-level capacity.
Serve as an operational liaison to colleges, schools, and administrative units engaged in curriculum or assessment work.
Contribute, as time permits, to research articles, white papers, and conference presentations that highlight UT Austin's curriculum, assessment, and academic-effectiveness work.
Support grant-writing and external-funding efforts, as time permits, related to assessment, learning analytics, or curriculum innovation.
Participate in AVP-led strategic initiatives related to academic effectiveness, accreditation readiness, policy alignment, and institutional improvement.